WE NEED REAL CHANGE. Stopping the politicians who are taking away local democracy Sacramento isn’t working for regular people – it’s time to shake things up. It works for the big donors, special interests and career politicians – but it doesn’t work for the...
The Our Neighborhood Voices initiative team has just informed us that the initiative will be ‘pivoting’ to 2024. Palo Alto has been a superstar in all ways, but we need to ramp up the magic that is here to many more places in our state to make this...
The Devil is in the details… On three separate times during the CO$TMarin webinar, one of the panelists, State Senator Mike McGuire, who was a co-author of SB9, stated that the new law allowed cities to deed restrict the new lot-split properties ‘in...
California state laws now target “The Housing Problem” at the local level – What happens from here? In September, 2021, two days after his recall victory, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB9 as part of a 24 bill package intended to address housing supply and...
The ABAG Appeals Meeting for Palo Alto is scheduled for October 22, 2021 from 9AM to 5PM and will include unincorporated Marin county, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Monte Sereno, Palo Alto, Saratoga, and unincorporated Santa Clara county. For the upcoming 6th Cycle of...
Every eight years the state assesses how much housing California needs. This cycle, the assessments doubled and, in some cases, tripled for cities across the state. Palo Alto will be required to build more than 6,000 housing units between 2023 and 2031. However, the...
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